'Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).'Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993' by Sarah Schulman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).'A History of Scars' by Laura Lee (Atria Paperback).'Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience' by Zoë Playdon (Scribner).“A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers (Tor Books).“Stone Fruit” by Lee Lai (Fantagraphic Books).“Black Girl, Call Home” by Jasmine Mans (Berkley).“Light From Uncommon Stars” by Ryka Aoki (Tor Books).“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo (Dutton Books, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC) Stonewall Honor Books in Literature “Too Bright to See” by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC) 'Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir' by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books) Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award 'Sorrowland' by Rivers Solomon (MCDxFSG) Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

The award is announced in January and presented to the winning authors or editors at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June or July.

The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award are presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date.

Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience. The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table.

The Gay-Cat by Patrick Casey